Display Settings

Several folks wrote with questions and comments about the OS X screen video I posted the other day. I mentioned that Media Encoder was the capture tool, but didn't specify how I got from Windows Media to Flash. For that, I used Camtasia Studio. I've heard good things about Qarbon but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Chris Ryland, from Em Software, wrote to recommend SnapzPro X 2 specifically for OS X (and QuickTime).

Using SQL-XML Based RSS Feeds to Syndicate Documentation, Tutorials, and Demos

I have embellished a number of weblogs that I oversee (Personal, Virtuoso, and UDA) as part of an OpenLink technology "dog-fooding" effort. We now have SQL-XML based RSS 2.0 feeds that make an array of content available for RSS Aggregators as well as ad hoc XQuery and XPath queries over HTTP/WebDAV.

I was just over at Technorati and noticed the "weblogs watched" count went over 400,000 today (it's at exactly 400,091 right now). It was only March 5 when the 100,000 mark was passed. At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year.

Sometimes when you see a post on somebody's blog that you like, it's enough just to leave a comment on the other blog about that issue. But what if you've got something to say about the issue that you'd like to share with readers of your own blog? If you do post to your blog, you have to go and leave a comment in the other blog if you want the people there to know about your own blog entry.[From http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/what-is-tb.htm]

Do I have to be using Movable Type?

At this time, only Movable Type is configured "out of the box" to use trackback. However, if you have your own web server space you may be able to set up Stand-Alone Trackback to work with your blogging system. You might also wish to look into similar applications such as Pingback.

BEA Systems and Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver BEA WebLogic Workshop Java Controls for sforce BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, and salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced a strategic alliance to provide services-oriented application development solutions based on BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and the BEA WebLogic Enterprise PlatformT. The companies' alliance will help advance sforce - the first client/service application development framework that enables enterprises to rapidly build and deliver business applications using the software-as-service model.

When will these guys get? You don't implement industry standards in order to become product or vendor dependent. Web Services support should not reduce choice of Application Servers. I guess we need to show them what I mean via our eCRM; it services will be SOAP consumable via a WSDL file and that's it.